Dell Customer Communication
PURPOSE: This email is with respect to the "fitupd" command. In looking at the source in the current u-boot tree, fitupd supports a NOR flash only.
OUR GOAL: We would like to expand fitupd to be able to flash a SPI NOR, and MMC block devices. This would require support for, file writes (ex. ext4write), raw block writes (ex. mmc write), etc. Our design also supports a master boot record with two bootable partitions.
QUESTIONS: Is expanding fitupd support for block devices a desirable feature to contribute back? Is this something that the u-boot projects would want?
Would you want this in the ../common path for everyone to have access to? Or, prefer that this support be added to ../board/<mystuff>/ for our unique support only?
I am leaving out all the details for now, we are first trying to understand the general direction we should go.
Thank you for any advice in this area. Brian Brelsford